Message of 12-23-11
Published: Fri, 12/23/11
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Message of the Day
The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine but a living Person.
- Emil Brunner (1889-1966), The Word and the World
(Born as a child unto us . . .)
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Lectionary Readings of the Day
http://www.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month
Mal 3:1-4, 23-24; Ps 25:4-5, 8-9, 10 and 14; Lk 1:57-66
R. (see Luke 21:28) Lift up your heads and see; your redemption is near at hand.
Your ways, O LORD, make known to me;
teach me your paths,
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my savior.
Good and upright is the LORD;
thus he shows sinners the way.
He guides the humble to justice,
he teaches the humble his way.
All the paths of the LORD are kindness and constancy
toward those who keep his covenant and his decrees.
The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him,
and his covenant, for their instruction.
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Reflection on the Scripture
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
Messengers still come. We are a skeptical people, and God devises new ways to interrupt our doubts and wake us up. Maybe it is the comedian who peels the blinders off our eyes. Maybe it is the winter sun that reveals every twisting branch on the trees outside the window. Maybe it is the crowds of people throughout the world who cry out for justice. Maybe it is gathering at the altar to give thanks. God calls us through fire and light. Like Zechariah, we must quiet down so we can hear again. A light has come that is not of our own making. When this truth finally dawns on us, like Zechariah, we give praise.
- by Jeanne Schuler
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Spiritual Reading
On Cleaving to God
by St. Albert the Great
So accept everything, separately and in general, wherever it comes from and whatever its origin, in silence and peace, and with an equal mind, as coming to you from a father's hand and his divine providence. So render your imagination bare of the images of all physical things as is appropriate to your state and profession, so that you can cling to him with a bare and undivided mind, as you have so often and so completely vowed to do, without anything whatever being able to come between your soul and him, so that you can pass purely and unwaveringly from the wounds of his humanity into the light of his divinity.
- Chapter 4. How one's activity should be purely in the intellect and not in the senses.
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